HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080735130
Bassin de Hibbs Bayou
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions : Catahoula, La Salle
Sub-basin area
331,1km²
Upstream area
7 774,9km²
Discharge
145,34m³/s
Mean elev.
16m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Flagon Bayou1107 km²
- Bassin de Hemphill Creek828 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 242.6 km²73.3% of basin
- La Salle88.3 km²26.7% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
28.28 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Catahoula, LA
IUCN VConservation Easement
11.86 km² overlap
Catahoula Lake
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
2.89 km² overlap
Catahoula
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
247 distinct species · 2 906 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Hibbs Bayou : 27 espèces reliées par 69 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
18,6°C
Annual rain
1 476mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
673mm/an
PET
1 435mm
AET
1 105mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
8cm
Forest
23%
Crops
37%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)